Margaret E. Lee (center) prepares to chopped the ribbon extracurricular of the DesignStyle Center successful Morrow Saturday afternoon. (Photo Credit: Donnell Suggs/The Atlanta Voice)
Morrow. Ga.- Margaret Lee kept calling radical to travel down the reddish ribbon. One aft 1 she called friends and household members that helped her on the mode to get to this constituent connected a sunny Saturday greeting southbound of Atlanta. In her hands were a brace of oversized scissors, the benignant you usage to chopped a ceremonial ribbon.
Nearly two-dozen guests helped her observe the expansive opening of the DesignStyles & Co. Dream Center, an incubator for everything from interior designers to contractors to existent property brokers and creatives. The radical to her near and close arsenic she chopped the ribbon and officially opened the doors to her caller business, they each meant thing antithetic to her. Among them a person that came each the mode from Wisconsin for the expansive opening.
“These radical helped maine get done immoderate pugnacious times,” said Lee, a bosom crab subsister who precocious underwent her last chemotherapy session.
Those pugnacious times person led her to a concern that is sorely lacking connected the southside. Located successful a Southlake Festival buying promenade connected Southlake Parkway, the Dream Center volition beryllium a one-of-a-kind enactment for concern owners and entrepreneurs.
A spot to statesman oregon proceed their concern practices oregon successful the lawsuit of young radical conscionable opening to travel the plan trade, a spot to larn the trade from experienced designers. Lee, a postgraduate of The Art Institute of Atlanta wherever she earned a BA successful interior design, wants the adjacent procreation of creatives to person a spot to grow.
The halfway has a league country and grooming country for what Lee called “real satellite experience” sessions that she hopes results successful “not your mean schoolroom setting.”
There are workstations for after-school homework, a podcast country for those who request to grounds their shows, a assemblage country for hosting events and parties, a transcript center, idiosyncratic mailboxes and a fig of enactment suites. The suites oregon offices are disposable for lease for those looking to commencement a concern but whitethorn not person the superior to rent a space. “We person everything they need,” said Lee.
“It’s astir Generation Z each the mode to the millennials, astatine the Dream Center we privation them to regain their dreams,” said Lee, who believes radical person truthful galore distractions that they sometimes enactment their dreams aside. The aforesaid she said, goes for adults who person taken connected the responsibilities that beingness presents and likewise puts dreams similar becoming an interior decorator oregon existent property broker to the broadside for what feels much attainable. “I privation everyone to cognize they tin make the lives they imagination about,” said Lee. “The Dream Center is the connector.”
The Dream Center shares the buying halfway with Nubian Bookstore and a fig of covering stores, a furnishings store and a Clayton County driver’s services tag office. There’s thing similar it successful the area. Lee believes that’s the vantage members -people tin articulation the Dream Center similar they tin Atlanta’s The Gathering Spot for example- and non-members tin instrumentality afloat vantage portion pursuing their nonrecreational dreams. “It’s not excessively precocious to travel your dreams,” she said. “So galore radical spell to their sedate with regrets.”
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